Are you wrestling alone with big questions? I will support you to cultivate hope and to act on what is in your power to change. If you have let yourself down, hurt others, or been hurt by others: I can help you to examine your wounded moral compass, to discern how it points you toward your true north.

I decided to become a therapist after years of intensive caregiving for family members with cognitive decline. We can learn new ways to cope and use our suffering for good. I will share with you short-term techniques for emotional stabilization I’ve learned as a mental health practitioner. We can also partner on the deeper work of your healing. And as strange as it may sound: amidst the seriousness of it all, therapy can actually be creative and fun!

I use cognitive behavioral therapies (including CBT and ACT), Internal Family Systems Therapy, EMDR, and Solution Focused Brief Therapy. I am also trained to treat sleep issues, trichotillomania, skin-picking, and other body focused repetitive disorders. My clients are usually individuals age 18+, though occasionally I see couples (especially for premarital issues).

If you have cultural and spiritual traditions to include, we can lean into them –or not, according to your preference; I have trained in integrative health and chaplaincy at University of Michigan, spiritually-integrated psychotherapy through a program affiliated with Wake Forest University, clinical social work at Louisiana State University, and have a doctorate in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (Hebrew literature focus) from Columbia University. I’ve worked extensively on college campuses, in nonprofits, and around the globe.

I’m also a breast cancer survivor. Whatever your life experiences, political affiliations, gender identities, or relationship structures, you are warmly welcome here.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

But if I am only for myself, who am I?

If not now, when?

–Mishnah, 2nd c. CE